Comment by happymellon
6 days ago
How is forcing manufacturers to state that they are planning to bork your game in the future "increasing the barrier of entry"?
6 days ago
How is forcing manufacturers to state that they are planning to bork your game in the future "increasing the barrier of entry"?
If the only thing that this initiative seeks to achieve is clear and fair labeling when purchasing something, I'm all for it.
If in the future, if anyone (including this initiative) requires the release or maintenance of server builds or code, I am against it.
> if anyone (including this initiative) requires the release or maintenance of server builds or code, I am against it
Why? What do you personally lose because of that?
There is a competitive advantage for being able to hold onto your code and builds. It currently requires quite a lot of effort and skill and persistence to resurrect live service games. This allows us to make money by re-releasing games and remastering them and so on.
If you require us to release server builds and or code "while still respecting copyright", the result will be that countries like Russia and China will offer competing services against us and we will not be able to make nearly as much money anymore.
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